Eucken, Walter (1891–1950)

Abstract

Head of the Freiburg School of German neo-liberalism and founder of the yearbook Ordo, Eucken was born at Jena on 17 January 1891. Eucken earned his doctoral degree at Bonn (1913). After the Habilitation in Berlin (1921), he was professor of economics at Tübingen (1925) and Freiburg (1927–50). He died on 20 March 1950 in London, during a lecture series at the London School of Economics.

Keywords

Economic order vs. economic process Eucken, W. Freiburg school German historical school Laissez-faire Social market economy